Michigan

Kalamazoo Wings add three

KALAMAZOO - The Kalamazoo Wings,
proud member of the ECHL, three-time
defending North Division Champions and National Hockey League affiliate to the
Vancouver Canucks, and American Hockey League's Chicago Wolvesannounce
the additions of forward Darren Archibald
and defensemen John Negrin
(NEH-grihn) and Mike Matczak
(matt-zack)

Archibald, who was reassigned by the Canucks, returns
for his second season with the K-Wings. Splitting last season with Chicago and
Kalamazoo, Archibald posted 43 points (14 goals, 29 assists) and had a
team-best plus-22 in 49 games with the K-Wings; earning him the team's Rookie
of the Year award.

Assigned to the K-Wings by the Wolves,
Negrin is entering his fourth season of professional hockey. A former 3rd
round (70th overall) selection of the Calgary Flames during the 2007
NHL Entry Draft, Negrin has played in three NHL games, all with the Flames,
earning an assist and two minutes in penalties.

Spending a majority of his career in
the AHL, Negrin split last season with the Abbortsford Heat and St. John's
IceCaps, where he recorded four assists in 40 games. The native of Vancouver,
British Columbia also spent nine games last year in the ECHL with the Utah
Grizzlies, where he produced six points (1 goal, 5 assists) in nine games.

Prior to turning pro, Negrin notched 117 points (13 goals, 104 assists) in 235
career Western Hockey League games with the Kootenay Ice and Swift Current
Broncos spanning five seasons (2004-09).

After being release
from the training camp of the AHL's Manchester Monarches, Matczak returns to
Kalamazoo, where he was the team's Meijer Most Improved Player Award. Proving
to be an offensive-defenseman, Matczak finished his rookie campaign notching 35
points (11 goals, 24 assists) in 60 games.

Matczak's first
opportunity in the pro ranks was in 2010-11 with the AHL's Adirondack Phantoms,
where he played in four games after completing his collegiate career at Yale
University.

With
the Bulldogs, Matczak recorded 39 points (8 goals, 31 assists) in 114 games and
ranked in the top three amongst his team's defensemen in three of his four years
at Yale.

The K-Wings will open up the regular season this
Friday, October 12th with an 8 p.m. encounter against the Fort Wayne
Komets at the Allen County Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Kalamazoo will return home to Wings
Stadium on Friday, October 19th with a 7:30 p.m. face-off to battle
Fort Wayne featuring a pregame home opening tailgate party.

Single-game and season tickets for the
2012-2013 season are on sale at the Wings Stadium Ticket Office. Ticket Office
hours are Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on
Saturday's. To charge tickets by phone,
please call Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000.

Tickets for all K-Wings home games are
$13 and $17.50 for adults and only $7 for kids ages 14 and under. The price for
all K-Wings premium night games (all colored ice games and New Year's Eve game)
are just $1 more.